This just in over the wire: Jeph Loeb and Rob Liefeld suck; comics are for children.

Mr. Fantastic experiences a misfortune.

Pixar storyboard artist's charming pictures of beloved characters from superheroic literature.

@arielawonders Put the brain hat on hiatus. Get 70% nerdier and get to work on these Iron Man fingerless mittens:

I forgot to do away with childish things.

Steve: A goddess from ancient Rome who is super powerful across the board and she drains your psychic energy and whips you.

Zack: "Yeah, this is my new character, Mia Exgirlfrend. She can turn into a shrew and she has beautiful feet that men want to touch and rub all over their faces."

Steve: "Super Queen Mommy shoots milk into your mouth and you get strong bones and then she tucks you into bed."

Zack: "Stocking Sally is a perfect goddess from the moon where everybody has legs twice as long as earth legs and they wear indestructible moonsilk stockings and her power is she can tie you up with her stockings and you have to kiss whatever she tells you no matter what it is!"

Steve: "This is Danka Buttnugs and she never takes a bath and has to fart all the time and she traps heroes in elevators and she wears a thong. No, this isn't gross, it's based on m...uh, a real person I...read about once in a...book...about crimes."

"So how do Business Superheroes ensure they follow Professor Xavier's example and not get caught up in the zealotry of Magneto? I suggest a three-pronged approach."

John Byrne's gallery of cheesecake shots of comic book superhero ladies. For shame, John Byrne!

Also includes a picture of C-3P0 and Princess Leia in a sexual scenario.

The company is indeed named for the lady.

Doors-style game heavily influenced by KOL about superheroes. Seems like nothing I should really be seeking out.

Excellent height chart.

Ahh, youth!

This sounds kind of awesome; I'm down with anything that has 99 main characters.

"Almighty Dollar, aka Pennington Pennypacker, who could shoot pennies from his hands"

Bootleg superhero toys, including "Spiderman 3" and "Superman Come Back." Superman Come Back has a crossbow and rides on a dinosaur, who may be named The Thing.

This is fun, except, '"Only heroes team up," Gleiser notes, "while villains do not."' That's not true. Didn't any of the 12,000+ comics address this?

Happy All Souls Day.

Charming website where two artists take turns drawing superheroes. Each new superhero has powers to defeat the previous one. Why the hell do they not have a way to look at them in chronological order?

Danny the Street was a sentient street and a member of the super-heroic Doom Patrol. He was also a transvestite.

Per MCW's advice, it seems that the first five issues of DC's 52 are online.

Hmm, list of the five best comic book characters with magnetic superpowers... I wonder who will come in first...

Yay!

Discussion of who would win in fights between various Marvel characters.

Kellogg cereal mascots as Boy Scoutish DC type figures, General Mills as the edgy angsty Marvel types.

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A panel from Frank Miller and Jim Lee's latest iteration of the Batman legend, which I'm told is pretty bad.

A drawing of Captain America by Rob Leifeld is reinterpreted to discover what the underlying musculature would actually look like.

The Batman sounds

"Methodist / Kryptonian religion." This is my new favorite website. Also, Power Pack is assumed to be LDS?

I have to respect the amount of backstory they're willing to give on Excelsior here. Does not excuse the shoddy bio on Karolina.

Now we're cooking with oil, people. I'd still like more textual information.

A touching defense of Magical Drama Queen Roxy.

Really killing me how withholding the Internet is with Gen13 information

Poetry by Freefall from Gen13. I always found Freefall more attractive than Fairchild and Rainmaker. Why was she so in love with Grunge?

Holy instruction in the acquisition of super-powers.

Skrull Kill Krew to be adapted for television. Skrull Kill Krew not conventionally "good," but this will still probably be the best show on Earth. Hi, Jeff!

While refiling over Thanksgiving, it struck me how unreasonably Rachel's breasts had been reimagined. The rest of her anatomy also rewards scrutiny.

Is Attractive Lad really gay? We may never find out.

One of the finest novel length New Mutants fan fictions ever composed.

Transcriptions of the sound effects in Batman fights

Really works